Housing Associations: A Legal Handbook 5th ed

Housing Associations: A Legal Handbook is the definitive legal guide to the law affecting housing associations and social landlords. This is the only legal guide to housing associations and manages to be both comprehensive and highly accessible and practical so those who live in housing associations, their advisers, and those who manage social housing understand the rules that cross many different areas of law.

Originally published over thirty years ago (as Housing Association Law: the law of social landlords, and subsequently as Housing Association Law and Practice), LAG is delighted to be publishing the first new edition in 15 years of this renowned title by Dr Christopher Handy and Professor John Alder.

The book aims to provide a framework for the housing practitioner and lawyer working in or with the sector. For those already acquainted with social housing law we hope to provide perspectives and insights demonstrating how the law has evolved and developed in this rapidly changing sector. We try to identify the principles and rules peculiar to housing associations and to highlight other areas of law which have a distinctive application to the sector.

Practitioners specialising in this area of the law, housing associations, local government departments, voluntary housing bodies and housing association members will find that this book is indispensable. It will also prove invaluable to students studying housing law and those with an interest in urban studies.